U. Michigan Liberals Can’t Take a Joke
…be so very overwhelming, you know? Let’s make clear that this is not a condemnation of Social Justice Warriors, but only four girls (yes, girls, notwomen, which reflects their immaturity)…
…be so very overwhelming, you know? Let’s make clear that this is not a condemnation of Social Justice Warriors, but only four girls (yes, girls, notwomen, which reflects their immaturity)…
…“rape culture.” But the piece was correctly understood by the left as a satire on their deepest beliefs. It was said to belittle their dedication social justice. Intolerable! Offensive! As…
…students achieving degrees at lower cost, and the gains will contribute to “social justice” by helping more low-income students. Those promises are likely irresistible to college administrators. But the soft…
Once the Supreme Court (actually, only Justice Powell’s pivotal opinion) said in the Bakke case that programs to increase student “diversity” could be justified if they brought about educational benefits,…
…say what they want and deeply dislike the constraints of external authority. On the other hand, a large number of students prize social control as an instrument of justice and…
…process against victimizing someone who is not guilty of the crime?” McElroy, who had earlier ended her remarks with a reminder to “not build justice for women on injustice for…
…job persuading people if you understand them. You need to understand how the other side thinks, and how your clients think — and of course how the judge or justices…
…perfected version of this with her call to replace “academic freedom” with “academic justice.” With legions of Common Core-prepared students headed for campus in years to come, Ms. Korn may…
…jealousy, jealousy and revenge, revenge and justice, justice and all other human goods. They have the vague sense that the universe is actually a cosmos – not a jumble of…
…redressing wrongs suffered by an individual because of the negligent actions of another,” not to some abstract theory of justice or a branch of economics. So if you want to…
…that campus rape, like rape anyplace else, is handled by the criminal justice system. The Social Conservative Response Unlike Klein, Ross Douthat’s two columns on the California law express some…
…the National Association of Scholars have been warning for some time, sustainability has a big tent that shelters social and political agendas along with environmental ones. Social justice, managed economies,…
…of our range of knowledge but that persistently arise anyway from the interaction between community goals and the pursuit of expensive coffee.” – -Faculty Lounge Baristas for Social Justice (forthcoming)….
…a changing society and in promoting concepts of social justice, especially pertaining to gender, race, and sexual orientation. (An old joke about fame circulated, not only by critics. The most…
…declaration: “I am a citizen of the world.” Like him, they deny that any actual political community can compete with their allegiance to universal human rights and global justice. But…
…going to my college of choice, I knew it was a place full of [Social Justice Warriors]. However, it was the best college I had gotten into, and I wasn’t…
…while salaries for criminal justice majors shot up 8 percent. What’s more, the STEM-trained labor force is far larger than the alarmists are willing to admit. According to a recent…
…“The Comfortable Kid,” who airs the debate between those who see the campaigns against microaggressions and for trigger warnings as appropriate next steps in the pursuit of social justice, and…
…it that there are quite a lot of conservatives among the ranks of academic economists, but very few in other social sciences, even though many other social sciences employ the…
…also hosted Nelson Mandela’s grandsons at the school’s annual celebration of social justice, an event that featured one of them insisting, “When the American government supports the Israeli army in…
…religious, social, or economic background…. The mission of Catholic Charities is to provide service to people in need, to advocate for justice in social structures, and to call the entire…
…of what constitutes justice. Scientistic professors hold that all human phenomena can be explained along the lines developed by the natural sciences, and therefore that humanities research should use the…
…enthusiastic welcome on university campuses. The notions of “climate reparations” and more broadly “climate justice” have settled in as things that campus philosophers philosophize about and campus activists activize over….
…should generally be handled by the criminal justice system, not by the kangaroo tribunals universities typically manage. And, second, that some of the examples trotted out as alleged cases of…
…time they graduate. The Bureau of Justice’s National Crime Victimization Survey, based on reported crimes, put the rate at 1 in 40. Reported crimes inevitably fall short of the actual…
…are usually the scribblers themselves–the outrages against them personally and the failure of the world to grasp their vision of justice. If all poetry, writing, “spoken word,” and gesture is…
…to the admission rate of poorer students), it achieves racial diversity … Another feature is that it achieves a very high level of social justice. That is, unlike most universities,…
…The Daily Beast, Kagan understood “the feelings of anxiety and exclusion that the court’s decision has heightened.” (Perhaps Justice Kagan should be viewed as a “wise Jew” analog to Justice…
…of “sexual assault,” which goes far beyond anything in the criminal justice system, in two respects. First, the university defines sexual assault as not only rape, as understood in the…
…should enlighten society and actively criticize the literary and artistic productions of our benighted past. Even academic freedom should give way to academic justice. 5. Literary Liberal Education emphasizes the…